MetaFilter posts tagged with siggraph

Doo-doo-doo-doo / Can touch this

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:01:05 -0800

Tactile Holography ``Although we can "see" holographic images as if they are really floating in front of us, we cannot "touch" them, because they are nothing but light... `` The Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display (PDF) solves this problem by producing tactile sensation on a user's hand without any direct contact and without diluting the quality of the holographic projection.''

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

phrontist — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:44:37 -0800

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

Content Aware Image Resizing

GuyZero — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:29:00 -0800

Content Aware Image Resizing. Every year SIGGRAPH rolls around I get a reminder of how smart everyone else is, especially people who do computer graphics research. From Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The algorithm resizes images non-uniformly and, well, somewhat magically.

It's like Minority Report!

arialblack — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:13:01 -0800

A Photosynth Tech Preview has been released from Microsoft Live Labs & University of Washington. While we discussed this project at length earlier this summer, it's now a public ( well, Win/IE only ) prototype with sample datasets, if you'd like to see it for yourself. Technical details for those interested.

Walk through the Mona Lisa

kokogiak — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:20:52 -0800

Diaphanous Fog Screen Projection Demonstrated at Siggraph, a thin sheet of dry fog is silently generated and used as a projection screen floating in the air, so you can literally step through it. Levels of opacity can be dialed up and down. Beautiful, but the possibilities seem to be appealing immediately to marketers (imagine a walkthough ad in your local shopping mall), and possibly some military folks. There are a couple videos here, you can see it looks like a video waterfall.